Sacramento's Latest Tent City Cleared Out

The city’s police department evicted about 120 people Wednesday afternoon and arrested three.

The homeless man known as Brother Eli was given the same choice
all of the homeless were given: pack up and leave, or go to
jail. He chose jail.

ELI: "It's illegal to sleep on the
streets. It's illegal to sleep behind a dumpster. The
places they say go is overwhelmed already."

More and more of Sacramento's homeless had moved into an area
off the American River Parkway near North 10th Street in
the past six months. Sergeant Andrew Pettit says police
received 20 complaints, and many calls for help from the homeless
themselves.

PETTIT: "Just the pure concentration of people that are
out here causes a problem for us…you know, the calls for service,
the sanitary issues, and then just us being able to access this
area and trying to maintain this area and keep it nice."

Volunteers of America and Sacramento Area Emergency Housing hope
to have 35 spaces open up at the winter shelter. Until those
spaces become available, the homeless say they will set up camp
farther down the river.